Plan Would Relieve Interstate 80 Traffic Load

If you’re ever stuck in heavy traffic on Interstate 80 between Vacaville and Fairfield, local transit officials want you to know – they feel your pain. A plan is in the works to lighten the congestion.

Interstate 80 is the main route for people traveling between the
Sacramento region and the Bay Area. But it's also how people who
live in Fairfield and Vacaville get around.

"We don't have a lot of alternatives for local traffic. The
residents between those cities use I-80 kind of as Main
Street."

Daryl Halls heads the Solano Transportation Authority which is
moving forward on a plan to upgrade side roads from two-lanes to
four so that local drivers don't have to get on 80. It's called the
Jepson Parkway Project.

"Some of the local trips can stay on the Jepson Parkway and then
that way the regional trips, for residents in Sacramento, hopefully
that'll just kind of reduce the future growth of traffic on
I-80."

Money for the 12-mile corridor will come from local and state
agencies. Construction is expected to start in 2014.